Capstone Week 4

Week 4: 

Gordon had a lecture on Debt and how to pay it off. There were two ways, one was psychological, and one was more efficient based on mathematics. 

Our team set up Solidworks on Alex’s computer and met with Dr. Gordon to make sure our specs and requirements on del 3 were testable. 

Our team met with Dr. Rickard and went over del 2 with him. We talked about making a tubed casing for the Ahmed valve for our benchtop testing. We also discussed different concepts with him. We came up with the mockup lab schematic below. We also discussed the pressure readings and drops our valve needs to produce (shown at the bottom of the notes). 

Our team brainstormed modules and the functions that our chosen design must have. We created the poster below. 

Throughout the Week our team brainstormed on each circled module on how it could be done. 

We did some on posters and some on slides: 

I set up slides for our group brainstorms that we did together. 


 










Thought of a more detailed design for a component of benchtop testing to replicate fibrosis resistance. 

- Need to get access to Solidworks to draw up the stopper for the valve. 

-The printed part needs to have an inner diameter slightly bigger than 1 in

-We can use unicone for the epoxy 

-The tube portion of the Ahmed valve can be sealed with epoxy and they can be one component 

Brinkley and I set up the first part of the lab for our benchtop pressure sensor testing in Dr. Rickard's room. 
 



We still need some parts for this lab like the pressure sensor and the valve, and I need to download Solidworks to print the part outlined above to replicate the fibrosis resistance. We also made some adjustments from the schematic, because we don't need the EVP bath anymore. 




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